LOS from G3 to H8 is degraded once by H7. (Profile views can be good, but since it's not the "map view" you need to adjust things just a tad and measure from what would be considered "eye level" not literal ground level (and I know that that is arbitrary, but hear me out) and consider that the...

Object Height Images are correct. A, B and C are correct. A is covered in LOS Examples 8, 9, and 11. B is covered in LOS Example 7. C is also covered in 8, 9 and 11. D is incorrect. The Squads have a clear LOS to each other; the Squad in K3 is not in the one-hex shadow of the Light Woods in...

The topic, I've gleaned, is: Is it too soon for games (and/or conflict simulations) about the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is a tricky topic, for points raised above. All I can say is, in 2008, when Day of Heroes came out (15 years after the events in Somalia occurred), there were a...

Hi Rydo, It doesn't mean "back off' it just means "I'm on it". You, or anyone, is free to design whatever you like. Dave and I have been talking about doing Fallujah for a couple years now, but we needed to get the rules and other projects completed first. Best Jeff

No offense taken, and I'm sorry you misread my comment as such; it was not intended to be a rebuke, just the anecdotal evidence on the matter to date. It's clear you understand the rule, so I don't know why you are putting so much effort in to the usage of one word, which I've now twice...

Well, v4.1 has been out for about 3 or 4 years, and you are the first to find the word choice here to be disconcerting. Further, more than 30 people have read v5.0, many of them ASL people who are playing LnLT for the first time, and no one has raised this concern over adverb usage. Most adverbs...

Directly behind means just that. Stephane has pointed out all the relevant rules. The LOS is degraded. The target hex is within the two-hex shadow "directly" behind the Orchard. Whether the shadow is one hex or 10, the word 'directly' is just their to emphasize behind the intervening obstacle.

The Low Crawl thing has been added to 6.3 in the v5.0 rules, so it's not a needle-in-a-haystack rule anymore.

RE the Mortar ? . . . Well, the hex would need to be Open terrain or under a Spotted marker to be eligible for this. . . . Seems like a waste of the Mortar's impulse, IMHO. But, by all means, fire away.

Heroes of Fallujah is already in the works. And the Marines will have Fire Teams.

I'm not the solo guy, but I do recall that absurd AEO actions are supposed to be overruled, and this falls into that case. IMHO. An emplaced tank in a defensive role should not be doing what it did.

The AEO moved an Emplaced tank that's on the DEFENSIVE side to perform an overrun . . . on a Sniper. Just so I have that straight? Oh, brother. Non of that computes with me. We are indeed in beyond-rare-case turf here.

Well, the logic needs to follow the rules, despite not explicitly covering Snipers, which would, on the whole always be in a Building or other non-Overrun-eligible terrain. And just as Shaken WTs are eliminated if the Overruning vehicle remains in the hex, so should Shaken Snipers. Further, it...

We are rare-case territory here. Sniper can't move or be in terrain w/o +TM, thus Sniper is eliminated. What scenario is this from?

For V5.0, settled on: A helicopter that has not moved or fired can make a spotting attempt. It can change from flying to hover mode though.

Stephane has most covered. But to reinforce or clarify, based on v5.0 1) ATGM cannot fire at flying aircraft. Only blue to-hit #s can target flying helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. 2) Sort of a non-issue, as there are no scenarios with helicopters on both sides; though "Relief" had the...

FYI: The image example has Bocage not Hedges.

I think for the sake of consistency I'll amend the helicopter rules so that only helicopters that have yet to fire or unload/load passengers can perform a spotting attempt; thus it can still change modes, from flying to hover, and make the spotting attempt.

I think it's an interpretation thing here. I view it that a Helicopter is not Ops Complete until the end of its impulse, thus after the spotting attempt in question. It's sort of ambiguous as written, even in V5. And it does make it seem like the only time they can make the spotting attempt is...

Yeah, the vehicle cannot op fire in that situation.